A Cooperative Trust Management Framework for Load Balancing in Cluster Based Distributed Systems

Establishing trust in a distributed computing environment is one of the most challenging and important aspects of cluster computing. Achieving optimal performance in clusters forces the migration of processes to other nodes. This is where trust comes into play. A secure trusted environment is needed in order to ascertain the credibility of the participating nodes working together to achieve a goal. Though trust negotiation and establishment is challenging and provides a promising approach for any node joining or leaving a cluster dynamically, very few research proposals exist to date. This paper attempts to build a trusted distributed environment for load balancing by incorporating two more server processes - registration and node authentication module in the process migration server (PMS). The proposed approach makes an attempt to design a dynamic trust management system that detects the malevolent nodes at the run time environment.